Christopher Deutsch

Christopher Deutsch serves as a DPAA Research Partner Fellow at the University of Missouri, providing historical research support for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's mission to account for missing personnel. Based in 402 Jesse Hall, he holds direct university affiliation through this specialized research role.

His academic credentials include:

• B.A. in History from California State University, Sacramento
• M.A. in History from California State University, Sacramento
• Ph.D. from the University of Missouri

Deutsch specializes in 20th Century American History with concentrated expertise in Food History and Public Policy History. His current research examines postwar beef consumption as a metric of American prosperity through a government-contract manuscript titled Beeftopia: The Red Meat Politics of Prosperity in Postwar America, analyzing federal policies that shaped meat production and dinner-table economics after World War II. Previously, he taught university courses on food history, the 1980s, and twentieth-century America.